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Iraqi Critic and poet Maythem Alharbi wrote a notion about the poetry book , The Back Door of the Day. saying: this is the first poetry collection by Iraqi poet Amal Ibrahim. the form of writing is prose, the book doesn't limit its premises to a woman's sufferings merely from the loss or longing for the beloved in a naive way, rather, this book's concerns pave the way for broader steps...where you find such an intimate relation between the writer's experience and the texts. poetic phrases fill humane spirit with sparks of questionings, as an aproach to undermine the steadiness of ill values, as it presents a smart elegy that crossed the fences of calamity to invent what exceeds mere laughter or crying.

Amal Ibrahim makes us believe, as we go through the pages of her collection, that she's creating a double door,one to escape, and another to confront. escaping and confronting seem to be the inner motives of the texts, and obviously there is a continuous dialogue with one's self but outside the cage of the echoing ego. the texts are intended to hear an answer from the world more than being content in a cave of silence, since its moral message is to raise and appreciate the value of freedom and defend its grounds. quoted from Charles Baudelaire : I don't write poetry to entertain eloquence loving minds" . the texts were written with care, and in order to read them, one should lighten himself from the burdens of ready cliches and pre- estimation, that normally surround the evaluation of any Iraqi female writer in her own home country.